Problems Related to the Siting of the Laboratory Building for Civil Engineering Department at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

World Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium 2016

Zagroba, Marek^1

University of Warmia and Mazury, Faculty of Geodesy, Geospatial and Civil Engineering, Institute of Building Engineering, Department of Building Engineering, Building Physics, Heweliusza str. 4, Olsztyn

PL 10-724, Poland^1

关键词: Civil Engineering Department;    Construction process;    Engineering laboratories;    Heritage conservation;    Laboratory buildings;    Resistance testing;    Specialist equipments;    Underground infrastructure;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/44/2/022005/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/44/2/022005

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper deals with the conditions underlying and the problems arising from the siting of a building with specialist laboratories in a developed part of the university campus in Olsztyn, Poland. The topography of the terrain and the need to house civil engineering laboratories in the planned building had an immense impact on the shape of the building and consequently on its foundations, whose dimensions responded to the ground conditions and the specification of various loads they would have to support, including the equipment for the laboratories. The siting of a building as a step in the construction process entails several problems, which are first taken into consideration at the stage of making preliminary concept plans and are subsequently verified while working on the final construction plan. The required information included geotechnical documentation, survey of the ground conditions and the data regarding the predicted loads on the building, necessary to select the right type of foundations. All these problems grow in importance when dealing with such unique buildings like the discussed example of a laboratory building for the Civil Engineering Department, built on a site within a conservation zone on the campus of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland. The specific character of the building and the specialist equipment with which it was to be furnished (a resistance testing machine, a 17-meter-long wave flume) necessitated a series of analyses prior to the siting of the building and selecting suitable foundations. In turn, the fact that the new building was to be erected in the conservation zone meant that collaboration with the Heritage Conservation Office had to be undertaken at the stage of making the plan and continued during the construction works. The Heritage Officer's recommendations concerning the building's shape, divisions, dimensions, materials used, etc., created a situation where the team of designers and architects had to become engaged in the process of landscape and spatial management. The above requirements concerned the functions of the building and its siting on a land parcel that was difficult to handle, also because of the protected trees growing there. Other constraints included the small size of this site, the developed surroundings, and the pre-defined programme of functions and use of the new building. On the other hand, the siting of the planned building had to be accommodated to the existing underground infrastructure (utilities). All the above circumstances made the task difficult and demanded good coordination between individual teams of engineers and architects, both at the stage of making the plan and during the construction works.